(55) 
as in the ftony Mountains themfelves the 
Crevices of Beds are filled up. Now the 
fame caufe, which roleth the fragments 
of Bedsj broken oflf from the neighbou¬ 
ring MountainSjUpon Hillocks, may allb 
have difpcrfed through’the fame hillocks 
fuch Chryftals as were beaten out of the 
cavities of the fame Beds. 
As to the Place of Chryftal, to which 
is joyned new Chryftallin matter, the 
following Propofitions may fhew, what 
is to be faid thereof. 
I. Chryftal incrcafeth by new Chry¬ 
ftallin matter being put to the external 
planes of already delineated Chryftal: 
lb that their opinion can have no place at 
all, who efteem, that Chryftals have a 
Vegetative growth', and draw nouriOi- 
ment on that fide where they ftick'to 
their tMatrix^ and that fo the Particles 
received by the fluid of the ft one, and 
tranfmitted into the fluid of the Chryftal, 
are inwardly joyned to the Particles of 
the Chryftal. 
II. This new chryjlallin matter is not 
joyned to all its f lanes y but for the mo (I 
fart to the f lanes of the tof only^ or to the 
tstreme flanes j whereby it comes to 
E 4 pafs. 
